Quotes of: Win-or-lose Keyword

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

Fight Club

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Freedom from Fear

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

Firefly Lane

...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...

A Familiar Rain

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

The Fox Woman

Never let a boy know you’re crazy about him. He’ll lose interest, and then you’ll be a loser.

Getting Lost with Boys

We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

The God Delusion

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

The Gargoyle

As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.

The Galaxie and Other Rides

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.

The Black Banner

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

The Birth House

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

Boarded Window

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Coming Up for Air

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Nia Vardalos

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Allegra Huston

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Gloria Steinem

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

Amanda Seyfried

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Horatio Nelson

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by t...

Carlisle Floyd

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

Mike Birbiglia